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I recently downloaded a piece of software that came in a .ZIP archive, but the .EXE software inside of the archive had a password on it. The website that I would have gotten the password from closed a while ago.
Because the executable is password protected it cannot be extracted.
I'm on Windows 7 Home Premium, and I use winrar
for my archives.
So, I guess my question is is it possible to crack a password for a file within an archive without extracting it?
1sorry, is it the software that is password protected or the archive? – VBwhatnow – 2012-07-12T11:58:29.193
@VBwhatnow "it cannot be extracted." seems to indicate the archive. – Daniel Beck – 2012-07-12T12:12:58.497
1you need rar cracker, but it is a very lengthy task and you have to have lot of patience – Deb – 2012-07-12T12:31:00.313
You need some multi-threaded bruteforce cracker. But it may take a while to crack. Maybe days...weeks. You need a lot of horsepower for this. – Apache – 2012-07-12T12:50:41.110
1cRARk is an excelent tool for RAR cracking. Uses GPU to multithread attacks. Just not sure if it supports zip files. I do know that there is a version that supports 7-zip. – Chad Harrison – 2012-07-12T15:36:04.850
@Shiki yeah, i have an always on workstation that i can use for this. – Ben Franchuk – 2012-07-13T00:12:54.823
@hydroparadise i think i willl try that! Thanks! :) – Ben Franchuk – 2012-07-13T00:13:24.743